Chapter 37: Reject Me!

Dante didn’t answer.

Instead, he reached out, grabbed her hand and plastered her palm against his neck near, at his mating spot.

It was immediately as if she had been stung, quickly taking back her hand.

But he caught her still, pulling her touch back to his neck.

"Feel it!"

"F-feel what?" Selena was confused, staring at him with panic stricken gaze.

He let go all of a sudden.

She lowered her hand and when she looked at her palm, she startled backwards, eyes widened at the blood on her palm

"W-what is this?"

She quickly looked up at him, reaching out to grab him. She touched that part of his neck again, and when she looked at her palm, there was much more blood.

"You’re...you’re bleeding. Your mating spot, it’s...it’s bleeding. W-why is it bleeding, Dante?"

"Because of you!"

"Because of me?"

"Yes, because of you," he repeated.

He grabbed her wrist, pulling her closer. "Ever since you came to this manor, ever since you came to my pack, strange things have been happening to me!"

"What are you talking about?" Selene tried to take a step.

She tried to pull back her hand, but he wouldn’t let go.

"Dante—"

"First, it was at that time I took you to the hospital. I merely came close to you, and next thing I knew, I was having these bleeds from my mating spot. Strange, isn’t it?"

She blinked at him.

"That night you slept in the living room, it ended the same way. But I ignored it. How could it be because of you? I have a mate."

"Yes you do. You have a mate." She shook her head at him. "It has nothing to do with me. Let me go, Dante."

"And then," he ignored her, continuing, "That day, not only did you react to me, but this happened again. For some odd reason, my wolf is obsessed with you. It is territorial with you, and it has never reacted in these manner with Meris. So, tell me, why you?"

"How would I know?"

Selene lowered her eyes.

"Let me go, Dante—"

"I had to get to the bottom of this, and so I did! Do you know what the doctor said to me?" he questioned.

Selene’s shoulders rose and fell in heavy breathing.

"W-what did he say?"

"Only omegas could ever experience something like this. And it only happens if a mate they don’t want forces a mark on them or an alpha who isn’t their mate marks them. Their body completely rejects it and it’d cause their mating spot to bleed in pure rejection. But I’m not an omega."

He chuckled, appearing as if a man who had already gone insane.

"I am a supreme alpha, one who hasn’t even been marked by my so-called mate, yet. So then why am I reacting like this? Why is my body completely rejecting Meris? Why does my wolf hate her? TELL ME!"

"I don’t know!"

She shook her head at him, taking steps backward.

"I don’t know! S-stop asking me. I don’t know what is going on either, I don’t—"

"Don’t you get it?" He chuckled again, this time breaking into a series of laughter. "Let us use our thinking brain for a bit and then maybe you’ll get it, huh?"

Selena pulled at her hand. "Dante, let go of me. I don’t want to do this—"

"You don’t want to? Why? Because you’ve already figured it out? Because you know, is that it?"

"Dante, LET GO!"

"You are a wild omega and wild omegas cannot react to alphas unless that alpha is their mate!" He moved a step closer. "I am a supreme alpha. And ever since you came into this manor, my body, soul, mind, and wolf have completely rejected the woman I thought was my mate. So tell me..."

He paused, blinking his eyes.

"...isn’t it obvious?"

Selene looked up at him. She parted her lips several times, trying to find her words.

Of course it was obvious.

She wasn’t stupid.

These details, if put together, were easy to make sense of. It was more than easy to come to a conclusion.

But she didn’t want to!

She didn’t want to believe that this man...that this man was...

"No..."

"No?" He raised a brow at her.

"No, Dante." She shook her head at him. "So what if this is the case. Now that it is obvious—"

"What is obvious?"

"Dante—"

"Say it."

"Dante, stop—"

"Say it yourself. I need to hear it, because I feel like I may be going insane. I wake up to find out that the person I have thought was my mate for years isn’t! That a random woman who was merely a case of peace treaty is my mate! A WILD OMEGA!"

PAH!

Selena slapped him hard across the face with her free hard, her face squeezed with hostility and anger.

"How dare you?!"

His face remained whipped to the side, the shade of her palm imprint evident on his face.

"A wild omega?" She shoved at his chest. "Let me tell you, being a wild omega is the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Because you know what? I refuse to submit to anyone against my will! I will never stand below anybody, not even you, Dante! I am the future heir of my pack, a wild omega who will rule my pack when my father steps down. So don’t you dare!"

She let out a deep breath.

"You don’t have to lose your mind or go insane from the fact that your mate is a wild omega. You can easily fix this."

Dante quickly lifted his head and met her eyes. "What do you mean by that?"

"When the moon goddess gave us a system of mating, she also made sure that we had choices and rights. So listen to me..."

She stepped into his space, lifting her hand to stub her polished finger into his chest again and again.

"...if you so much hate having a wild omega as your mate, it is very easy for you to fix that! All you have to do..."

"...is Reject. Me!"